CSX Corp (CSX): Transportation's Featured Underachiever Of The Day

CSX was a leading decliner within the transportation industry, falling 38 cents (-1.6%) to $23.92 on average volume.

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CSX ( CSX) pushed the Transportation industry lower today making it today's featured Transportation laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, CSX fell 38 cents (-1.6%) to $23.92 on average volume. Throughout the day, 7.7 million shares of CSX exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 8.9 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $23.79-$24.21 after having opened the day at $24.16 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $24.30. Other companies within the Transportation industry that declined today were: Radiant Logistics ( RLGT), down 6.9%, FreeSeas ( FREE), down 5.9%, Arkansas Best Corporation ( ABFS), down 5.6%, and Universal Truckload Services ( UACL), down 5.4%.

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CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based transportation services. It offers traditional rail services, and transports intermodal containers and trailers. CSX has a market cap of $24.44 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 13.4, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 21.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate CSX a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates CSX as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its attractive valuation levels, expanding profit margins, solid stock price performance and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.